Great Quotes

• In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind of thing. I'm certainly not too vain in that respect. If it's a great role, I'm willing to do whatever it is that it takes.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Up
  • Game
  • Respect

• Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Future

• God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • Work
  • God
  • May

• Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.

  

  Anna Lee
  • Great

• A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Great
  • Revolution

• I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Great
  • Reading
  • Pressure

• I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Loving

• I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.

  

  Burn Gorman
  • Time
  • Great

• It was a great experience tonight -- I'm thrilled we came out on the right end of it. Anytime you get into the playoffs, it's a huge deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Experience
  • Deal
  • Playoffs

• I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• I can be. I do not normally try to be. In fact, there have been some reviews-which I’ve loved-that said I didn't try to sell my show on sex, that I sang my show. On the other hand, I know I'm cute. I can dance. I don't have a bad figure. I know exactly what I am. I'm certainly no great beauty. I know exactly how far I can go.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Bad
  • Hand
  • Dance

• These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

  

  Jim Carroll
  • Work
  • Great

• If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Brave

• Great artists have no country.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Great
  • Country

• Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

  

  Alexander Osterwalder
  • Up
  • Small
  • Customers

• I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.

  

  Kygo
  • Family
  • Together
  • Team

• In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Ironic

• A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

  

  Lee Strasberg
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Independent

• I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Good
  • May
  • Experience

• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Great
  • Band

• Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Movie
  • Effort
  • Humble

• Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.

  

  Bobby Kotick
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

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